> However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it moves this slow. > > It is just a normal portscan using nmap, that's what nessus starts with, > isn't it...? Something that usually would take like, 6 minutes... The duration of an nmap varies greatly dependant of the timing policy you use. For example paranoid (-T0) leaves 5min between two scans, resulting in roughly 350 (approx. number of services in /etc/services) * 5min ~= 29 hours. > > Looking at the network load of the server, the first 6 minutes or so of > the process, it is high, but the after that, there seems to be no > abnormal traffic. > > Anybody else seen something like this? I don't know about this, though. I don't use nessus myself, so perhaps it has actually nothing to do with the timing-policy at all... HTH, Johannes -- "More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
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